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Puncak Jaya (Indonesian: [ˈpuntʃak ˈdʒaja]; literally "Glorious Peak") or Carstensz Pyramid, Mount Jayawijaya or Mount Carstensz (/ˈkɑːrstəns/) on the island of New Guinea, with an elevation of 4,884 m (16,024 ft), is the highest mountain peak of an island on Earth. The mountain is located in the Sudirman Range of the highlands of Central Papua, Indonesia, in the southwest of Puncak Jaya Regency.

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Puncak Jaya
Carstensz Pyramid
Peak of Puncak Jaya
Highest point
Elevation	4,884 m (16,024 ft)[1]
Prominence	4,884 m (16,024 ft) Ranked 9th
Isolation	5,262 km (3,270 mi)
Listing	Seven Summits Eight Summits Country's highest point Ultra-prominent peak Ribu
Coordinates	04°04′44″S 137°9′30″E
Geography
Puncak Jaya Location in Papua Show map of Papua (province) Puncak Jaya Location in New Guinea Show map of New Guinea
Location	Central Papua, Indonesia
Parent range	Sudirman Range
Climbing
First ascent	1936 by Colijn, Dozy, and Wissels 1962 by Harrer, Temple, Kippax, and Huizenga
Easiest route	rock/snow/ice climb

The massive, open cut Grasberg gold and copper mine, the world's fifth-largest gold mine, is 4 km (2.5 mi) west of Puncak Jaya.

Other summits are East Carstensz Peak (4,808 m [15,774 ft]), Sumantri (4,870 m [15,980 ft]) and Ngga Pulu (4,863 m [15,955 ft]). Other names include Nemangkawi in the Amungkal language, Carstensz Toppen and Gunung Soekarno.[2] It is also the highest point between the Himalayas and the Andes. Some sources claim Papua New Guinea's Mount Wilhelm, 4,509 m (14,793 ft), as the highest mountain peak in Oceania, on account of Indonesia being part of Asia (Southeast Asia).[3]

History

The highlands surrounding the peak were inhabited before European contact, and the peak is known as Nemangkawi in Amungkal.

European discovery

Puncak Jaya was named "Carstensz Pyramid" after Dutch explorer Jan Carstenszoon, who was the first European who sighted the glaciers on the peak of the mountain on a rare clear day in 1623.[4] The sighting went unverified for over two centuries, and Carstensz was ridiculed in Europe when he said he had seen snow near the equator. It appeared on maps of the time as Sneebergh.[5]

The snowfield of Puncak Trikora, 170 km (106 mi) east of here, was reached as early as 1909 by a Dutch explorer, Hendrik Albert Lorentz with six of his Dayak Kenyah porters recruited from the Apo Kayan in Borneo.[6] The predecessor of the Lorentz National Park, which encompasses the Carstensz Range, was established in 1919 following the report of this expedition.

Climbing history

In 1936, the Dutch Carstensz Expedition, unable to establish definitively which of the three summits was the highest, attempted to climb each. Anton Colijn, Jean Jacques Dozy and Frits Wissel reached both the glacier-covered East Carstensz and Ngga Pulu summits on December 5, but, due to bad weather, failed in their attempts to climb the bare Carstensz Pyramid. Because of extensive snow melt, Ngga Pulu has become a 4,862 m (15,951 ft) subsidiary peak, but it has been estimated that in 1936 (when glaciers still covered 13 km² (5.0 sq mi) of the mountain; see map) Ngga Pulu was indeed the highest summit, reaching over 4,900 m (16,100 ft).[7]

The now-highest Carstensz Pyramid summit was not climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (of Seven Years in Tibet fame, and climber of the Eiger North Face) with three other expedition members – the New Zealand mountaineer Philip Temple, the Australian rock climber Russell Kippax, and the Dutch patrol officer Albertus (Bert) Huizenga. Temple had previously led an expedition into the area and pioneered the access route to the mountains.[8]

When Indonesia took control of the province in 1963, the peak was renamed Poentja' Soekarno (Simplified Indonesian: Puncak Sukarno) or Sukarno Peak, after the then-President of Indonesia Sukarno; later this was changed to Puncak Jaya due to the subsequent de-Sukarnoization. Puncak means peak or mountain and Jaya means 'victory', 'victorious' or 'glorious'. The name Carstensz Pyramid is still used among mountaineers.[9]

Geology

Puncak Jaya is the highest point on the Central Range, which was created in the late Miocene Melanesian orogeny,[10] caused by oblique collision between the Australian and Pacific plates, and is made of middle Miocene limestones.[11]

Access

Access to the peak requires a government permit. The mountain was closed to tourists and climbers between 1995 and 2005. As of 2006, access is possible through various adventure tourism agencies.[12]

Glaciers

While Puncak Jaya's peak is free of ice, there are several glaciers on its slopes, including the Carstensz Glacier, West Northwall Firn, East Northwall Firn and the recently vanished Meren Glacier in the Meren Valley (meren is Dutch for "lakes").[13] Being equatorial, there is little variation in the mean temperature during the year (around 0.5 °C [0.90 °F]) and the glaciers fluctuate on a seasonal basis only slightly. However, analysis of the extent of these rare equatorial glaciers from historical records show significant retreat since the 1850s, around the time of the Little Ice Age Maximum which primarily affected the Northern Hemisphere, indicating a regional warming of around 0.6 °C (1.1 °F) per century between 1850 and 1972.

The glacier on Puncak Trikora in the Maoke Mountains disappeared completely some time between 1939 and 1962.[14] Since the 1970s, evidence from satellite imagery indicates the Puncak Jaya glaciers have been retreating rapidly. The Meren Glacier melted away sometime between 1994 and 2000.[13]

An expedition led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson in 2010 found that the glaciers are disappearing at a rate of seven metres (23 ft) thickness per year and in 2018 they were predicted to vanish in the 2020s.[15][16]

Climbing

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Puncak Jaya is one of the more demanding climbs in one version of the Seven Summits, despite having the lowest elevation. It is held to have the highest technical rating, though not the greatest physical demands of that list's ascents.

The standard route to climb the peak from its base camp is up the north face and along the summit ridge, which is all hard rock surface.[17] Despite the large mine, the area is highly inaccessible to hikers and the general public. The standard route to access base camp as of 2013 is to fly into the nearest major town with an airport, Timika, and then take a small aircraft over the mountain range and onto an unimproved runway at one of the local villages far down from the peak. It is then typically a five-day hike via the Jungle route to the base camp through very dense rainforest and with regular rainfall, making the approach probably the "most miserable" of the Seven Summits. Rain during most days of the hike inbound and out are not uncommon. Unlike the other Seven Summits, if one sustains an injury on the inbound hike, there is little or no ability to get rescued via helicopter. Anyone injured must evacuate by foot over very difficult and slippery terrain.

The descent from the peak's base camp can take three to four days. Anecdotally, it appears most injuries occur during the descent due to a combination of exhaustion and difficulty controlling hiking speed on the wet and slippery terrain.

An additional complication is relatively common work strikes by the climbing porters that accompany most expeditions, occasionally halting their work to demand (and usually receive) higher pay before agreeing to continue. The one-day summit bid is technically challenging for those with little rock climbing experience, and it can be quite cold with temperatures at or below freezing near the summit. Patches of snow sometimes appear on the route up or on the ropes of the Tyrolean traverse just below the summit.

See also

• Eight Summits
• List of elevation extremes by country
• List of highest mountains of New Guinea
• List of Southeast Asian mountains
• Seven Summits

References

External links

• "Mountains of the Indonesian Archipelago"- Peaklist.org
• Racing Time on Oceania's Highest Peak by The Earth Institute
• Puncak Jaya on Peakware Archived 2020-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
• Puncak Jaya on Peakbagger
• Carstensz Expedition Report – 90+ Photos
• Aerial photos from the Puncak Jaya region

На других языках

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[de] Puncak Jaya

Der Puncak Jaya (Bahasa Indonesia [.mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}ˈpuntʃak ˈdʒaja] ‚Siegesgipfel‘), auch Carstensz-Pyramide und früher Djalaspitze oder Sukarno genannt, ist mit 4884 m Höhe der höchste Berg Ozeaniens und weltweit der höchste Berg auf einer Insel. Er liegt in der indonesischen Provinz Papua Tengah in Westneuguinea der Insel Neuguinea. Der Puncak Jaya gehört zur Sudirman Range, die ein Teil des Maokegebirges ist. Dieses ist alpidischen Ursprungs und durch das Abtauchen der Pazifischen Platte unter die Indisch-Australische Platte entstanden.

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- [en] Puncak Jaya

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[es] Jaya

El monte Jaya (Puncak Jaya en indonesio), también conocido como monte Carstensz o pirámide de Carstensz, es la montaña insular más alta del mundo y el pico más alto de Oceanía, en la isla de Nueva Guinea, con 4.884 metros de altura sobre el nivel del mar.[1] Se encuentra en las montañas Sudirman, o Dugunduguoo, al oeste de la zona montañosa de Papúa, la mitad oeste de la isla principal de Indonesia que está en una zona frecuentemente agitada por terremotos y maremotos. Otros nombres incluyen Nemangkawi en el idioma amungkal, Ngga Pulu, Carstensz Toppen y Gunung Sukarno.[2]

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[fr] Puncak Jaya

Le Puncak Jaya ou pyramide Carstensz est une montagne d'Indonésie située sur l'île de Nouvelle-Guinée, dans la province de Papouasie. Ses 4 884 mètres d'altitude font de cette montagne le point culminant de l'Indonésie et de l'Océanie, ce qui l'inscrit dans la catégorie des sept sommets, et place la Nouvelle-Guinée en première position dans le classement des îles par altitude. Découverte par le Néerlandais Jan Carstenszoon en 1623, la montagne n'est approchée qu'au début du XXe siècle et n'est gravie qu'en 1962 en raison de sa relative inaccessibilité. La présence du Puncak Jaya dans la liste des sept sommets attire cependant de nombreux alpinistes désireux de gravir les points culminants des sept continents. Le Puncak Jaya et les sommets voisins sont un des rares endroits à présenter des glaciers sous des latitudes équatoriales. Ces quelques glaciers, dont le glacier Carstensz, qui s'étend sur la face orientale du Puncak Jaya, sont les restes d'une calotte glaciaire beaucoup plus importante, qui a commencé à régresser à la fin de la dernière période glaciaire, il y a 12 000 ans. Inclus dans le parc national de Lorentz, le Puncak Jaya est situé à proximité de la mine de Grasberg, une mine à ciel ouvert constituant un des plus importants gisements d'or et de cuivre au monde.

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[it] Puncak Jaya

Il Puncak Jaya (conosciuto anche come Monte Carstensz e Piramide Carstensz, quest'ultimo tutt'oggi usato nel mondo dell'alpinismo) è una montagna dell'Indonesia, situata nella provincia di Papua, appartenente alla catena montuosa Sudirman (Dugunduguoo nella lingua locale) (una zona molto calda sia per l'elevata sismicità sia per i frequenti scontri tra bande armate ed esercito indonesiano, senza contare che nella zona risiedono ancora le tribù Kimial e Damal con tendenze cannibalistiche); pur appartenendo politicamente ad uno stato transcontinentale, è geograficamente nell'Oceania, trovandosi sull'isola della Nuova Guinea e con i suoi 4.884 metri (fonti meno ufficiali, ma più numerose, la stimano tra i 5.020 e i 5.040 metri) è la cima più alta dell'intera Oceania, rientrando dunque nelle cosiddette Sette Vette del Pianeta, al contempo è anche la vetta più alta situata in un'isola.

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[ru] Джая

Джа́я[2] (индон. Puncak Jaya, также известна как пирамида Карстенса) — гора в массиве Маоке на острове Новая Гвинея. Гора расположена в его западной части, относящейся к Индонезии, в провинции Папуа.

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